This second in Shane’s national bestselling crime series features a serial killer nicknamed “the Executioner,” who has a serious lust for carving up people with knives he forged himself. The State of Illinois prepares to execute a baby killer in “Old Sparky,” the electric chair, but the serial intends to stop it spectacularly—to avenge the state’s wrongful execution of an innocent man four decades earlier. Meantime, Emily and Marty’s growing love takes an ugly, perhaps irreparable, turn when she discovers the son he’s hidden from her . . . and they’re trapped in a burning building with no way out . . . and Emily, newly promoted from patrol officer to detective, is strapped into the electric chair herself.